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Ubuntu: USN-4277-1 (CVE-2017-7544): libexif vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-4277-1 (CVE-2017-7544): libexif vulnerabilities

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P)
Published
09/21/2017
Created
02/14/2020
Added
02/12/2020
Modified
03/22/2023

Description

libexif through 0.6.21 is vulnerable to out-of-bounds heap read vulnerability in exif_data_save_data_entry function in libexif/exif-data.c caused by improper length computation of the allocated data of an ExifMnote entry which can cause denial-of-service or possibly information disclosure.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-libexif12

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